Samsung to Build $17 Billion Silicon Manufacturing Plant in the US by 2023
Samsung has been one of the world’s biggest foundries and one of three big players still left in the leading-edge semiconductor process development and manufacturing. However, the Korean giant is always seeking ways to improve its offerings, especially for Western customers. Today, it is reported that Samsung has reportedly talked...
UL Benchmarks Announces DirectX 12 3DMark Mesh Shader Test
DirectX 12 Ultimate adds powerful new features and capabilities to DirectX 12 including DirectX Raytracing Tier 1.1, Mesh Shaders, Sampler Feedback, and Variable Rate Shading (VRS). After DirectX 12 Ultimate was announced, we started adding new tests to 3DMark to show how games can benefit from these new features. Our...
Alphacool Introduces Three New Enterprise Solutions Fans
The Alphacool ES fans have been specially developed for use in servers and workstations and, unlike usual, do not offer a 2 or 3-pin DC power connection, but a 4-pin PWM control. Via the 4-pin PWM connector, the fan always receives full voltage and is controlled by pulse width modulation....
First Comprehensive Review of the Core i7-11700K (ES) Surfaces
Lab501 posted the first comprehensive review of an Intel Core i7-11700K “Rocket Lake-S” engineering sample. The ES has clock speeds matching the rumored clock speeds of the retail version, and should give you a fair idea of how the finished product should perform. The i7-11700K, which is an 8-core/16-thread chip,...
AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.2.2
AMD released the latest version of Radeon Software Adrenalin drivers. Version 21.2.2 beta doesn’t add any new game optimization (since there haven’t been any big releases since the previous 21.2.1 driver release; but fixes a handful legacy issues. To begin with, 3D objects failing to render correctly with the EEVEE...
ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 Owners are Applying Custom GPU vBIOS with Higher TGP Presets
With NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30-series lineup of GPUs, laptop manufacturers are offered a wide variety of GPU SKUs that internally differ simply by having different Total Graphics Power (TGP), which in turn results in different clock speeds and thus different performance. ASUS uses NVIDIA’s variant of GeForce RTX 3080 mobile...